Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage And Barn Attached With Garden Walls And Railings

NY 41 NW, 10/139

MARTINDALE, SANDWICK, Townhead, including Townhead Cottage and Barn attached with garden walls and railings

(Formerly listed as: MARTINDALE, SANDWICK, Town End, Town End Cottage and attached barn and garden walls and railings

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2 houses and bank barn. Date stones, 1720 and 1857. House roughcast stone rubble, barn dressed stone with sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof. East elevation of 2 storeys and 4 bays, the 1st bay an extension forming cottage, of one storey due to high ground level; barn to north. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, paired windows to ground floor and 1st bay; small-paned fire window to 4th bay. Entrance to 3rd bay has 6-fielded-panel door. 2 ashlar cross-axial stacks with moulded caps. Front garden walls have plain iron railings and rusticated gate and angle piers with ogival caps; iron gates have decorative finials. Barn has 2 windows with small-paned glazing, one an insertion and 2 entrances, that adjoining house has one chamfered jamb and lintel inscribed: "I & AS/1720". Winnowing door. Slate date stone inscribed: RICHARD GRAVE HINDSON 1857". Rear has 2 gabled wings to houses; barn entrance has long wing to north, outshut under catslide roof to south. Small-paned glazing to most windows.

Listing NGR: NY4233719616